Biology
- February 13
- Max Perutz publishes the structure of hemoglobin.
- John Kendrew publishes the structure of myoglobin.
- July - Robert Burns Woodward publishes a total synthesis of chlorophyl.
- Jacques Ruffié invents hemotyping.
- Juan Oro finds that concentrated solutions of ammonium cyanide in water can produce the nucleotide adenine.
- Four independent researchers (Sam Weiss, Jerard Hurwitz, Audrey Stevens and J. Bonner) discover the bacterial RNA polymerase that regulates the polymerization of nucleotides under the control of DNA.
- Climatron geodesic dome greenhouse opens at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.
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